As I've noted before, the Counter-Jihad Maintream tends to romanticize certain classes of Muslims -- such as the Persian People, the Arab-Sprung Egyptian Democrats, and the valiantly Westernized Kurds.
This week, the latter crotchet was indulged by none other than the Poet Laureate of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream, Hugh Fitzgerald -- and he wasn't content to indulge his Kurdophilia once, but in three separate essays in the span of one week.
Not only was Hugh writing in glowing terms about a people who are overwhelmingly devout Sunni Muslims -- if that isn't odd enough for an eminent writer of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream Leadership -- he proceeded in these essays to expatiate upon a global policy using outlier Muslim groups (such as the Kurds, the Baluchis, the Azeris and others) as pawns -- heroic, valiant, praiseworthy pawns, to be sure -- in a Realpolitik strategy that sounds like Henry Kissinger and Daniel Pipes combined.
Sure, it's a Realpolitik that is grounded in a relatively healthy hostility to main Islamic actors on the world stage -- Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey -- but it hasn't accounted for the wild card: the millions of Muslims who have flooded the West, an incursion likely continue for decades to come, to the tune of many more millions of Muslims inside the West. I might be supportive of Hugh's grand plan to use outlier Muslim groups with traditional grievances against the more powerful Muslims around them; but only after we have deported the millions of Muslims from the West. For, what Hugh's grand plan is counting on is an escalation of the perennial internecine violence among Muslims -- which is fine and dandy as long this internecine violence doesn't spill over into the West, which it surely will as long as there are Muslims here and as long as the West continues its hostility to Islamocriticism (which it surely will as long as the Counter-Jihad continues to cultivate a diffidence -- if not an outright disdain for -- a rational prejudice against all Muslims).
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